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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

1 year

a bunch of us started this group that we hope will be a hub for cultural organizing against the war. please join us!!!

WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA

www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

2 years

fwiw as a non woman who could get pregnant, i still think it’s p important to name abortion as an issue of women’s liberation. like not exclusively so, of course, but the resistance to doing so actually just seems like weird false universalism.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

you all have your little problems but im the culture editor of jewish currents and some day woody allen is going to die

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

when you're at a shiva for a guy you didn't like

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

hey @SenSanders if you introduce a resolution in the Senate blocking bomb sales to Israel by the end of the day tomorrow, in conjunction w the one being introduced by your friends in the House, it will go up for a vote!!! so you should absolutely do this. we're counting on you!

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

ok. im the editor & i use they/them pronouns. it’s fine, im trans masc, not a grave misgendering. but i have my pronouns in my email sig &, for the amt of time i spent dealing w this writer specifically on qs of trans representation, maybe it wouldn’t have killed her to check?

sarah schulman

@sarahschulman3

3 years

Ok. This is so annoying. I have had plenty of bad reviews. But I think that accusations should be accurate. I asked the editor to provide his fact checking and he wouldn’t and suggested that I go to the union. So I did. That is the story.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

i feel like Daenerys used to be a girl with a really good livejournal and now shes a terrible tech boss. so basically she is Grimes?

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

Andrew Yang has real guy-you-get-stuck-sitting-next-to-at-a-wedding energy

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

it’s v nice to be asked, as a grad student, to contribute to the anniversary issue of a prominent feminist academic journal. it’s not so nice when, as a grad student, you have to pull out bc writing a 12,500-word piece for free could not be made to fit into the freelance calendar

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

i never talk about this online bc it’s discouraged but being in a long running legal battle with the company whose driver hit you on your bike and fucked up your leg for the rest of your life is a fucking nightmare

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

really cannot be overemphasized that if what you love is gossip, you should organize your building

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

why dont we call the psychopharmaceutical industry Big Mood

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

can you run out of interiority?

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

this is random but i think i might be kind of a boy now ???

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

shd i write a paper called “Withdrawing Was Not an Option: Academic Labor and the Trouble with Autonomy”

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

today is the day i got to tell Judith Butler that she has overtaken Hegel on twitter

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

should Jewish Currents start a product review vertical where every week we just investigate whether a decent conflict-free seltzer-making machine exists

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

happy may day, my neighbors and i have been on rent strike for a year today fighting for rent relief and repairs from the slumlords who own our beautiful building and im extremely proud of us!

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

welp, the JD Vance stans freaked out the Wash Post bad enough that they pulled a line suggesting he was worried about “declining white birthrates” & confirmed that he was rlly talking about “declining American birthrates,” a very not-white-nationalist thing to be worried about🏆

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

have been a culture editor for a year now and yet the culture is still full of errors

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

1 year

jvp shutting down grand central fucking station

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

1 year

you know who else was a jewish voice for peace?

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

i wrote about the white nationalism deep in the heart of the anti-abortion movement

Perspective | How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement

Eugenics have long been tied to the attempt to restrict reproductive freedom.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

lol half the ppl in that article from yesterday r in a group thread trying to decide whether it’s worth it to divulge that the family of the guy who wrote it owns a castle

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

👀👀👀

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

Wrote about an extremely intense eviction defense across the street from my house. I think this is a pretty good story about my neighborhood and NYC housing politics at the start of the Adams administration and hope you'll read it.

The Passion of 964 Park Place

A standoff between tenant organizers and yeshiva students over the fate of a Black family’s home summoned the specter of the Crown Heights riots, and…

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

needless to say, there’s no contract abridgment or anything here, bc there’s no contract. no money. nothing changing hands except prestige, in the form of academic currency that i can’t spend outside the academy—which im already leaving.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

i was supposed to have my book party tonight but it’s cancelled & everyone i love has covid so im pivoting to direct sales, if you’re in quarantine in central bk i will bring a copy to your doorstep with some tea

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

if you have a solution, im all ears

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

i defended my dissertation & then i went across the street to the Empire State Building and went up to the observation deck & took a picture of the tiny Grad Center below

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

the amazon news is so fucking cool. for as long as ive lived here ive seen ppl give up on this city by cynically declaring it already destroyed by capital beyond repair. that is a great way to justify abandoning something you didn’t want to fight for in the first place.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

@drakemotel "Survived by his daughter and wife, Soon-Yi Previn...."

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

does everyone here who lives in New York know that if you’ve missed or withheld rent payments at any point since March 2020, you likely qualify to get your back rent covered by the state? the program is live as of yesterday morning.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

i hope we somehow get into a situation where a baby becomes president

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

🎭

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

in this essay i will grapple with an undertheorized figure in the contemporary culture landscape, my mother

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

Brooklyn is out 🔥😍

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

isn’t that what Christmas is about

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

does anything interesting happen if you water plants with seltzer

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

do actual imposters get imposter syndrome

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

Palestine Will Be Free

Aziz Abu Sarah

@AzizAbuSarah

3 years

I think it’s been 20 years since cities like Lod have erupted in protests like this. Similar videos coming from Haifa and other cities and towns.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

sorry to be maudlin but well this is the deal: i didnt get that i couldve died when i got hit till hrs later in the ER, a nurse teared up & said, “we had another one in here yesterday—same thing as you but we lost her.” & it wasn’t this person either. it’s a public health crisis.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

i am so excited for the future in which i can finally open a hair salon called Socialism and Barberism

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

me [spends years in therapy trying to understand that my mother is not the universal subject] mom, triumphantly: my foot is exactly one foot

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

Vicky's review says SS's book makes transphobic moves, not that SS herself is "a transphobe." But I will say that the tone SS took w me, the trans editor of a review by a trans writer, when she called to complain abt it, made me feel like she didn't think we existed or mattered.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

yo we have a SCOOP

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

:)))))

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

hello, im the Culture Editor at Jewish Currents now! 🙃✌️

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

i had the honor of helping assemble these incredible remembrances, & their fittingly Berlantian mix of intimacy & knife's-edge analysis & comedy & ambivalence & love brought Lauren back into sharp focus for me & made me cry a lot

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

you guys i just found out i got misgendered by @mattyglesias , in a national bestseller! 👻

Leslie Root

@les_ja

4 years

Can't believe someone would say JD Vance sucks just because he sucks

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

last night i dropped my phone in wet leaves it is fine now except the bottom left corner of the screen has lost its sense of touch and that is where punctuation comes from so do i get it fixed or do i submit to poetry

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

how can i be expected to make correct grocery choices when it’s impossible to say if it will be a week i like bananas or a week i don’t like bananas

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

can we take back the phrase “politically correct”? it’s such a useful way to describe the experience of being right all the time

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

i got through the absurd thing i just had to do, but this is what ill say for now: it is extremely weird and dehumanizing to have your body become evidence

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

Warhol sat for Alice Neel after Valerie Solanas shot him, insane

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

basically half of all theory is like “you think reading happens alone but sex happens between people, & that’s backward”

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

uhhhhhhh we just sent off a meticulous letter to our landlord that we've been working on for weeks, signed by about 60 percent of the occupied units in our large building, in response to *his* attempt to start negotiations with the 13 units still on strike, and he just wrote back

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

chess...good game but not very realistic

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

1 year

you know what always goes well, ive learned from my jewish education, is making people into exiles in egypt

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

has anyone figured out how to feel their feelings, but safely?

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

i have a new name! more soon :)

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

how come no one ever told me till last night that a major plot point in the story of Christmas is.....the census

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

my piece is unpaywalled :)

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

gotta say i am getting pret-ty tired of having to reproduce my labor power

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

i guess i have a phd now?

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

did you guys know that middle schoolers yell “ratioed!” when someone does something stupid and they don’t know it’s from twitter

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

im in a zoom mtg w a lot of nonprofit ppl, we’re 40 minutes in, and it’s been like 90 percent icebreakers. is this normal? we’re supposed to be like organizing to defeat global fascism, this seems bad.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

2 years

no one, like, passionately loves their pronouns....they're PRONOUNS

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

after having been nominated for the honor several times this summer, im pleased to announce ive finally contracted covid!

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@AriBrostoff

3 years

everyones got these fancypants theories of queer temporality, guys it’s just this clock

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

idk if im supposed to say this publicly yet, but i have a book of essays coming out & am trying to finish the introduction & can’t think of anything else to do to procrastinate besides telling you guys

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

last night a very wise friend explained to me that “obviously” the revolution will happen when sea levels rise to the point that “the internet gets wet,” i was immediately convinced & remain so

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@AriBrostoff

3 years

i loved Lauren, as a person as well as a thinker, in a way quite disproportionate to the small amt of time we actually spent together—a dynamic they were clearly familiar with, as a person who could read a room so well they could transform it w a gesture.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

happy 35th bday to me, a gemini savant who has vaguely understood since girlhood that i would someday get to have a crisis of middle-aged masculinity during a major social upheaval that i'd wish i was a younger man for 😊

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

it's so crazy that people have been living through history forever

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

another remarkable thing in the AOC interview is how seamlessly she includes “defund the police” along w M4A & GND as a basic demand of the left & thus something Dems should pivot to for their own good

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

how did a pedophile w dreams of starting an insemination farm wind up near the center of the Jewish philanthropic world? ⁦ @nkulw ⁩ & I have some thoughts.

The Right Kind of Continuity

Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual politics of Jewish philanthropy.

jewishcurrents.org

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

5 years

nice childhood memories brought back of being told jews were uniquely smart bc of our tradition of “asking questions,” while simultaneously being punished for asking questions

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@AriBrostoff

2 years

ok you know how good therapists are basically rabbis but we're not supposed to talk about it? want to know how this came to be historically and what it might look like if mental healthcare took a different path? read this, by @malefragility , i'm obsessed.

Therapy Was Never Secular

Reclaiming the religious roots of mental healthcare.

jewishcurrents.org

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

6 years

im delighted to be featured in a piece abt everyday life in socialist brooklyn. im less delighted to have been quoted out of context at one point, and to have had an unsettling experience with the reporter, as did some of my friends.

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

it’s great that after umpteen decades of feminist and queer critique the universally agreed upon solution to the problem of marriage turned out to be saying “my wife” in a borat voice

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@AriBrostoff

3 years

i think this is one of the most important pieces the magazine i work for has published, bc @kaleemhawa lays out so clearly what is unsayable abt Palestine in US media: the Israeli colonial project isn't just a complicated tragedy, it has to end, & it can

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@AriBrostoff

3 years

finally confessed tonight that my sole interest in tenant organizing is that i want to connect my building to other buildings with a zipline

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

when the zoomers start mocking us with “oooohhh, i was at OCCUPY, i have DEBT, i SMASHED THE GENDER BINARY”....then and only then i’ll feel something

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

biden is such an assistant principal

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

by the time you are 35 you shd be party to a lawsuit, a union drive, a rent strike, and a conspiracy

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

i feel as though i have been unduly under-congratulated for my executive decision, as culture editor of jewish currents, to completely ignore the borat movie

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

3 years

we have a contract 🙃

Jewish Currents Union

@JCurrents_Union

3 years

We are thrilled to announce the ratification of our first contract, with substantial wins that honor our history as a leftist Jewish magazine and, we hope, contribute to setting high standards for labor policies across the media industry.

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Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

4 years

i love early spring bc it's the time it feels most appropriate to have the stream of consciousness of a blessed simpleton, ie in the past two days my thoughts while walking down Fulton have included "a whole store for hats!" & "they grow so many kinds of fruit all over the world"

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@AriBrostoff

5 years

remember when people used to put currency that had been handled by thousands of people up their noses and ingest drugs through them

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@AriBrostoff

5 years

working on a piece that involves the fertility lobby, which I’m just going to assume we already refer to as Big Baby

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

lol my dad just asked “how is your ‘transition, if that’s the right word going?” for the first time ever, it has been two years

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

this is the only thing i published this year, but on the plus side, it's long! and good imo.

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

this is so damning. im wondering now if the obsessive critique of “consumerism” starting in the 90s wasn’t just missing the point but was always at least implicitly racist, a la scolding about conspicuous consumption in rap videos

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

there’s this dude who thinks JC won’t accept his pitches bc he’s an antizionist rather than bc the pitches are bad (he seems not to read our magazine), he has been writing us increasingly harass-y emails, & i am dyying to write back & correct the RENT quote in his email signature

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@AriBrostoff

5 years

now is a good time for Kevin Spacey to make one of those videos where he’s just in his house being like “im gonna getcha!”

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@AriBrostoff

1 year

and the fact that there’s not a giant action being planned by every left org rn is a scandalous result of the way we got divided this week

Ari M. Brostoff

@AriBrostoff

1 year

we should uh. probably be in the street tomorrow yeah?

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@AriBrostoff

4 years

my building is officially on rent strike!!! happy may day :)

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@AriBrostoff

5 years

hey freelance media workers! long story short—we’re unionizing! pls join us here: . getting involved in the Freelance Solidarity Project (now part of the Nat’l Writers Union) is one of the best things i’ve done this year. pls join in, & msg me w any qs 🌟

Freelance Solidarity Project | NWU

“We are all workers in the most blessed and mundane sense of the word.” - Toni Morrison, 1981 The National Writers Union is proud to announce a division created specifically for freelance media...

nwu.org

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@AriBrostoff

5 years

ok so who wants to turn “More courage, Bari Weiss!” into a meme

Jewish Currents

@JewishCurrents

5 years

Our review of Bari Weiss's book, by Judith Butler

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